Gregg Karukas

USA

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz, Easy Listening

Styles: Fusion, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Instrumental Pop, Easy Listening

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A talented keyboardist who has mostly worked in the commercial side of jazz, Gregg Karukas has the potential for stardom. Although he noodled on the piano from age six, he did not start studying music seriously until he was a teenager. Karukas often played organ in r&b bands early on and at 17 he began a five year stint with Tim Eyermann's East Coast Offering. After a period working as a studio musician in D.C., he moved to Los Angeles in 1983 where he became a major part of the pop jazz scene, playing with (among others) Richard Elliot, Grant ...

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